On the upside for the involved IRS employees, they can be comforted by the fact that this accusation will not adversely affect any chance they may have of becoming the next secretary of the Treasury:

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Slamming the “maliciously self-indulgent” IRS spending on lavish conferences, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said employees at the agency were essentially “guilty of tax evasion” because they failed to pay taxes on the perks they received as a result of the conference spending.